C89.5 Coping 101 Podcast Partnership - Forefront Suicide Prevention

Coping 101 is an award-winning student-led podcast from c89.5 in partnership with Seattle Children’s, 4Culture and other community-minded partners, where high school hosts get real about mental health. Forefront is partnering with C89.5 to produce four episodes focused on on supporting suicide prevention in at-risk communities.

Latest Episode

Teens at the Day of Hope Summit

For this special episode of Coping 101, we attended Forefront Suicide Prevention’s Day of Hope Summit, where high school student leaders from around the Puget Sound sat down to share their WHY‘s for joining in this life-saving work, what they’re doing to help themselves and their peers, and ways that adults can maintain effective mental health conversations with young people.

Coping 101: All Wildcats Thrive – Coping 101

"Even though we come from different communities we all get to meet here, and the school truly acts as a bridge between all of our communities." Wilbur-Creston-Keller is the ultimate cooperative school, bringing three different rural communities together to give all these students a second home. Wilbur-Creston-Keller Cooperative School is so much more than the sum of it's parts. This small school in Central Eastern Washington bring three small communities together for scholastic and community care, to ensure that "All Wildcat's Thrive". Their unique situation requires unique answers to questions around mental health, and school Principal Teresa Chirsman, and student, Jocelynn, sit down with our host to break it all down. Coping 101 is an award-winning student-led podcast from c89.5, presented in partnership with Seattle Children's, Forefront Suicide Prevention, 4Culture and other community-minded partners, where Seattle area high school students get real about mental health. Through honest conversations with peers, Artists and behavioral health professionals, they break down stigma and share tools for coping with life's challenges — because no matter your age or background, we all struggle sometimes, and there are healthy ways to cope. Get started with more episodes, and find community-centric resources online at c895.org/coping101 Wilbur-Creston-Keller Cooperative: https://www.wcsd.wednet.edu/ Forefront Suicide Prevention: https://intheforefront.org/ Forefront in the Schools: https://intheforefront.org/programs/forefront-in-the-schools/ Rural Health Info: https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/states/washington

Past Episodes Featuring Forefront

Charlene Ray discusses grief

While it looks different for every one of us, the journey of grief is all of ours to eventually navigate. Grief Guide, Clinical Social Worker, Writer and Therapist Charlene Ray shares insights from a three-decade career in Grief Counseling, including ways to prepare for the difficult traversal, tools that can help us have a healthy relationship with those we’ve lost and with grief itself, and how the natural world can be a healing companion.